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Survival, growth of loblolly, pitch, shortleaf pines established by different methods in New Jersey

There has long been confusion about how much care should be practiced in tree planting. Long ago pathologists pointed our that planted trees were more susceptible than natural stands to disease, especially to root rots (2, 1). Others have shown that twothirds of the planted trees in some areas had root systems severely deformed in planting (4); that these deformities may cause increased mortality (9, 3, 11), and that they may reduce growth in height by as much as 20 percent (9). However, Wakeley (12) considered apprehension over ill effects from slit planting of southern pines unwarranted, and Schantz-Hansen (10) reported that five different methods of planting red, white, and jack pines on sandy sites produced no important differences in tree survival or root development in Minnesota.


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Author(s): Silas Little

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Volume 24, Number 3 (1973)

Volume: 24

Number: 3